Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's Alec Ounsworth Goes Solo

Photo by Rich Orris and Marina Teper

With Clap Your Hands Say Yeah on a break, frontman Alec Ounsworth has set out on his own. On October 20, Anti- Records will release Ounsworth's solo debut, Mo Beauty. It was recorded in New Orleans with a murderer's row of Big Easy veterans backing him up: George Porter, Jr. of the Meters, Stanton Moore of Galactic, Robert Walter of Greyboy Allstars, and R&B institution Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, among many others. The tracklist is below.

Tracklist:

01 Modern Girl (... With Scissors)
02 Bones in the Grave
03 Holy, Holy, Holy Moses (Song for New Orleans)
04 That Is Not My Home (After Bruegel)
05 Idiots in the Rain
06 South Philadelphia (Drug Days)
07 What Fun.
08 Me and You, Watson
09 Obscene Queen Bee #2
10. When You've No Eyes